The energy from these records, that's what makes crunk so popular; that's why it's winning, because it makes you move a certain way.
Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.
Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all.
I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.
Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a song and still have a hit on the radio.
The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.
Yeah, I got a lot of inspiration from Three 6 as far as my sound.
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.
Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.
Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.
Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'
When I came up, one of my favorite groups and producers was Three 6 Mafia.
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.
